Corporation for Public Broadcasting shuts down after federal funding cuts
...( L A. Times - A cogent and accurate commentary by Member - johntomas )
You recycle a common but baseless accusation that NPR and PBS have become “left-leaning,” when in re...
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Categories:
thin skinned, america, bible, christian, corruption,
Form: Didactic
Oh, What A Tangled Interweb We Weave
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Don't like the look of what's going on
seems to you something's wrong
the smell of corruption in the air
look around it's everywhere
can't place the feel of what's happening here
could...
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Categories:
thin skinned, internet, word play, words,
Form: Rhyme
Beauty and the Beast
...Here rests the realm of the
thorn-tongued truth ~
a mortal mirage of doomed pentacles,
where forks and kettles speak
the language of witchery,
the dialects of the diabolical,
listening as ...
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Categories:
thin skinned, corruption, dark, evil,
Form: Free verse
Knowing Angels
...Angels are almost silent
Subtle
treadbare steppers
subliminal stalkers
determinedly quiet
except at choir
a pair of cherubic hums
can equivalate
to the drones
of a billion bee...
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Categories:
thin skinned, angel, evil, perspective,
Form: Free verse
Crazy NaughtiMess
...Crazy
that you can listen
to glistening gospel ministers
missing Messiah's GoodNews non-sinister
transNazarene re-sistering
whole Earth uniting salvation
Crazy
Jewish lay teacher
and EarthN...
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Categories:
thin skinned, god, health, integrity, music,
Form: Political Verse
Show Love, Not Hate
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Show Love, Not Hate
Miracle Man
4/17/2024
Antisemitism grows worse,
and there’s no current answer.
Hatred is eating our lunch,
like a man eating cancer.
It’s disrupting other’s li...
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Categories:
thin skinned, bullying, discrimination, god, hate,
Form: Quatrain
The Same Window
...She sinks into her threadbare cushion
on the aged-old rocker she huddles in daily
placing her thin-skinned arms
cold to the touch upon the arm rail
darkened from the oil of her skin
Creaks and...
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Categories:
thin skinned, age, confusion, depression, fate,
Form: Free verse
Deep Diving
...I'm way ahead of the darkness that cast shadows
& there's no looking back when moving with his light
I'm light years away so even if you're walking by
I'm still way too out of sight
Crystal clear...
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Categories:
thin skinned, inspiration, inspirational, introspection, philosophy,
Form: Rhyme
From the Gut
...I had my father's face
his mouth and eyes
his thin skinned heart.
Though those features have melted
and are smeared by old age.
I sometimes wonder if he ever had my
genetically maimed gut.
He ...
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Categories:
thin skinned, poetry,
Form: Free verse
How Do You Feel
...short circuited and
the fuse of purpose keeps tripping
high voltage boredom
on auto pilot in slow motion
the roundabout is not a funny circus
currents alternate
directly challenge
polar oppos...
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Categories:
thin skinned, analogy,
Form: Free verse
Sincere Suggestions
...I have wondered what Poetry Soup would be like
If poems submitted were subject to critical eyes
And contributors were free to critique the poems,
To say how they really feel about a po...
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Categories:
thin skinned, poetry, writing,
Form: Didactic
Veterans Breakfast Meet
...There‘ll be black humour today,
Gentle ribbing, banter and jokes,
Stripping away of egos, repartee
Among our mixed group of folks.
Bruising conversations maybe,
But in a non malicious way.
No ...
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Categories:
thin skinned, courage, emotions, friend, hope,
Form: Rhyme
Soupercilious
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My Favorite Things comes to mind...
a random assortment, a jumble of words
a quotient of portions, quotidian served
quixotic strivings of the great deca-dense
obscur...
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Categories:
thin skinned, humorous, parody,
Form: Rhyme
My Thoughts On Cancel Culture
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My Thoughts On Cancel Culture
Written: by Miracle Man
November 1, 2021
Cancel culture is stealing our freedom of speech,
when we disagree, practitioners will impeach.
We can expres...
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Categories:
thin skinned, how i feel,
Form: Rhyme
Wait, What
...It's a melodrama. Try to picture the drama queen
A bit actress lying on the floor in her final scene
Her lips trembling, tears running down her face
ruining her makeup in a gown of satin and lace
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Categories:
thin skinned, introspection,
Form: Rhyme
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